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Speech intonation in Persian declarative sentences
مجله پژوهش در علوم توانبخشی, 2011 Introduction: Considered as an important factor in communication, prosody is composed of a number of features including intonation, pitch, stress, rhythm and duration, among others.
Maryam Nikravesh, Mahshid Aghajanzade
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Comprehension of implied meaning in Chinese second language listening
Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract Listening comprehension is crucial for second language (L2) communication and acquisition. However, it has received less attention than reading, given the transient nature of speech signals and the intangible cognitive processes involved in it.
Jiafan Zhang, Wei Cai
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Identifying The Pragmatic Force Of Attiudinal Intonation In Some Selected Political Speeches
الأستاذ, 2018 The main problem of the present study may be attributed to the fact that some politicians use different ranges and patterns of intonation when they want to express different emotions and attitudes that underlie different pragmatic forces. The study
Instructor Mahmood Atiya Farhan +1 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign languages are often learnt in formal and disembodied environments which may limit the emotional resonance of their vocabulary and their pragmatic usage in real‐life communication. In a context of English as a foreign language (EFL), this study examines whether elaborative processing as a teaching strategy leads to changes in the ...
María Jesús Sánchez +3 more
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, 2008 The article puts forward a discourse-pragmatic approach to the notoriously evasive phenomena of contrastivity and emphasis. It is argued that occurrences of focus that are treated in terms of "contrastive focus", "kontrast" (Vallduví & Vilkuna 1998) or ...
Zimmermann, Malte
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Grammar Searches for Wh‐Questions in Beginning‐Level Child Second Language Learners
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is important for learners to be able to ask wh‐questions in interaction. However, making wh‐questions can be difficult for beginning‐level EFL leaners, particularly for those learners whose L1 and L2 differ in the way wh‐questions are formed.
Haerim Hwang
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Prosodic description: An introduction for fieldworkers [PDF]
, 2008 This article provides an introductory tutorial on prosodic features such as tone and accent for researchers working on little-known languages. It specifically addresses the needs of non-specialists and thus does not presuppose knowledge of the phonetics ...
Himmelmann, N. P., Ladd, D. R.
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how foreign language teachers’ beliefs about the medium of instruction and translanguaging evolve over time by revisiting three in‐service teachers twelve years after their initial interviews. Using a qualitative longitudinal design, the study traces how translanguaging was initially framed as pedagogically deficient but ...
Danping Wang
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studies on classroom interactions suggest that displaying affiliation through linguistic and multimodal resources could promote positive emotions like enjoyment, thereby enhancing engagement and enthusiasm in second/foreign language learning.
Karen C. K. Choi, Kevin W. H. Tai
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Don't interpret focus : why a presuppositional account of focus fails, and how a presuppositional account of givenness works [PDF]
, 2009 This paper advances a purely presuppositional analysis of intonation. I first show that a inspiring recent article by Geurts and van der Sandt (Theoretical Linguistics, 2004) that pursues the same goal cannot account for multiple foci.
Sauerland, Uli
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